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Molasses-Alfalfa Supplement for Fattening Yearling Cattle

University of Missouri

Abstract

To compare cottonseed cake with a molasses-alfalfa mixture as a supplement to shelled corn for fattening steers on blue-grass pasture, four lots of thin "good to choice" Hereford yearling steers were fed as follows:

The corn fed was No. 2 mixed. The cottonseed cake was pea sized, prime grade. Chemical analysis showed it to contain 42% protein, 27.80% nitrogen-free extract, 9.86% fat, and 10.40% crude fiber. The mixed supplement was prepared by a commercial feed mixing company and contained 30% 2xx alfalfa meal; 30% blackstrap molasses; 20% re-ground oat feed; and 20% choice cottonseed meal. The mixture contained 14.19% protein, 48.67% nitrogen-free extract, 1.50% fat and 17.54% crude fiber. The pasture was good blue grass, particularly during the first part of the summer. In late July and August it became dry and short.

Cattle getting a supplement to corn made more rapid gains and required slightly less feed per unit of gain during the first 56 days than those getting no supplement.